The coffee math
Your coffee has a
dosing problem.
And a receipt problem.
Not anti-coffee. Anti paying for sugar and guesswork you didn't ask for. Here's the arithmetic, using the FDA's numbers and the chains' own published figures.
The coffee math
What's actually in the cup
Espresso, single shot"typical" (your shot didn't read the report)
Latte, 16 ozusually two of those shots
Brewed coffee, 12 ozthe FDA's own range
Energy drink, 12 ozFDA range, brand to brand
Energy drink, 16 ozFDA range, brand to brand
2 Punch'd gummiesa light lift
A full Punch'd pouch10 gummies, cup-of-coffee scale
A cup of coffee can run 113 to 247 mg of caffeine, by the FDA's own numbers, and the shop isn't required to tell you which one you got. An espresso runs "about 80 mg," says Europe's food-safety authority, with the same footnote: it varies. Ours tells you to the milligram, every time.
| Measure | 2 Punch'd gummiesa light lift | A full Punch'd pouch10 gummies, cup-of-coffee scale4 |  Starbucks Caffè Latte, grande1 |
 Dunkin' caramel swirl iced latte, medium1 |
 Dutch Bros Caramelizer, iced medium1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caffeine | 20 mg. Exact. | 100 mg. Exact. | ?2 | ?2 | ?2 |
| Sugar | 4 g3 | 20 g3 | 18 g | 52 g | 57 g |
| Calories | 103 | 503 | 190 | 340 | 400 |
| Who decides the dose | You. 10 mg at a time. | Still you. | The recipe. | The recipe. | The recipe. |
1 Their own published nutrition figures: Starbucks product page, Dunkin' Nutrition Guide, Dutch Bros Nutritional Guide, captured 2026-07-27 (receipts register).
2 Caffeine varies cup to cup and shot to shot. See the board above. We don't quote other people's numbers.
3 Punch'd label facts (and the pouch figures derived from them) pending verification against the printed label.
4 Matching dose for dose: a 10-gummy pouch is 100 mg, a cup-of-coffee-scale dose, minus the question mark.
Not anti-coffee. Anti paying for sugar and guesswork you didn't ask for.
The monthly math
⚠ draft copy: pending claim review (Andrei Irimia)
The daily coffee-shop order
$6–8/day
≈ $180–240 a month, before the tip.
Punch'd at 60 mg a day, subscribed
$0.96/day
≈ $28.80 a month, to the milligram.
Coffee-shop figure is a market-typical range, not any one chain's menu. The Punch'd figure is the live subscribed jar price, divided to the milligram.
